• Christine De Pisan

    the Querelle de la rose

    -c.Di Pisan: one of the most remarkable literary women of the middle ages–born in Venice – a daughter of a civil councilor .
     

    -she worked in most of the dominant prose and poetical genres of her time.

    -Her work “the Querelle de la rose” is a major attack on the “Roman de larose” for jean de Meun.
     

    -the Querelle de larose :is a literary debate that took place in the opening years of the fifteenth century. (it takes the form of a letter)
     

    -Pisan attacks Meun’s work because it represented women as wicked objects of desire.
     

    -she calls meun’s roman de la rose as “idleness”
     

    -she’s saying that this man showed us that women are bad, this means that the women he was in touch with are bad, and that makes him bad too.

    -She’s a feminist although she states that this defense is not out of a feminine trend.

    -Generally Christine Di Pisan attacked the morals and manners that are badly attributed to women in that time.